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2010 Florida Tuskers season

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{{Short description|American football league season}}

{{Infobox NFL team season

| team = Florida Tuskers

| year = 2010

| record = 5–3

| division_place = 2nd

| coach = Jay Gruden

| general manager = Jay Gruden

| owner = Joe Theismann

| stadium = Citrus Bowl

| playoffs = Lost Championship Game
(Las Vegas) 23–20

| uniform =File:UFL-Uniform-FL.png

| next = 2011

}}

The 2010 Florida Tuskers season was the second and final season for the Virginia Destroyers as the Florida Tuskers. They finished with a 5–3 regular season record and lost in the 2010 UFL Championship Game to the Las Vegas Locomotives for a second straight season.

Offseason

Head coach Jim Haslett left the team in January 2010, becoming the new defensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/13/AR2010011300289.html|title=Redskins hire Jim Haslett as defensive coordinator|newspaper=The Washington Post|author=Maske, Mark and Barry Svrluga|date=2010-01-13|accessdate=2010-06-04}} On February 9, 2010, Jay Gruden was named the team's new head coach and general manager by UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue. On the same day of Gruden's appointment, the Tampa Bay Rays were announced to have sold their interest in the franchise, which meant that all home games for the Tuskers would be played at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando.{{cite web|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/os-florida-tuskers-ufl-name-jay-gruden-coach-0209,0,7573590.story|title=UFL names Jay Gruden new Tuskers coach, but big news is that Orlando becomes sole residence for Tuskers|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=2010-02-10|accessdate=2010-06-04}}

Along with the league's other teams, the Tuskers unveiled new uniforms during an event at Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas on July 28, 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.ufl-football.com/news/tuskers-unveil-new-2010-team-uniforms-fashion-mall-las-vegas|title=Tuskers Unveil New 2010 Team Uniforms at Fashion Mall in Las Vegas|work=United Football League|date=2010-07-28|accessdate=2010-07-28|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731101231/http://www.ufl-football.com/news/tuskers-unveil-new-2010-team-uniforms-fashion-mall-las-vegas|archivedate=31 July 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

=UFL draft=

{{Main|2010 UFL Draft}}

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|+ 2010 Florida Tuskers UFL Draft selections

width="100" colspan="2" | Draft order

! width="140" rowspan="2" | Player name

! width="60" rowspan="2" | Position

! width="140" rowspan="2" | College

Round

! Choice

align="center"

! 1

! 4

| Weston Dacus

| LB

| Arkansas

align="center"

! 2

! 9

| Arnold Harrison

| LB

| Georgia

align="center"

! 3

! 14

| John Standeford

| WR

| Purdue

align="center"

! 4

! 19

| Erik Pedersen

| LB

| Portland State

align="center"

! 5

! 24

| Tyrrell Herbert

| S

| Toledo

align="center"

! 6

! 29

| Adrien Clarke

| OL

| Ohio State

align="center"

! 7

! 33

| Kevin Harris

| FB

| Wake Forest

align="center"

! 8

! 37

| Cortez Hankton

| WR

| Texas Southern

align="center"

! 9

! 41

| Corey Small

| DB

| Florida Atlantic

align="center"

! 10

! 50

| Chris Perri

| DE

| Stony Brook

align="center"

! 11

! 54

| Greg Middleton

| DE

| Indiana

align="center"

! 12

! 58

| Melvin Fowler

| C

| Maryland

{{cite web|url=http://www.ufl-football.com/Draft/2010/Team/Florida|title=2010 UFL Draft by Team - Florida|work=United Football League|date=2010-06-02|accessdate=2010-06-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607062143/http://www.ufl-football.com/Draft/2010/Team/Florida|archivedate=2010-06-07|url-status=dead}}

Personnel

=Staff=

class="toccolours" style="text-align: left;"

|+ colspan="7" style="background-color:#0090C5; color: white; border: 2px solid black; text-align: center;"|2010 Florida Tuskers staff

colspan=7 align="right" |
valign="top"|

| style="font-size: 95%;" valign="top" | Front office

Head coaches

Offensive coaches

|width="35"| 

|valign="top"|

| style="font-size: 95%;" valign="top" |

Defensive coaches

Special teams coaches

Strength and conditioning

Equipment staff

=Roster=

{{UFL final roster

|Year=2010

|TeamName=Florida Tuskers

|BC1=#0090C5

|FC1=white

|BDC1=black

|Active=52

|Inactive=10

|Date=November 18, 2010

|Quarterbacks=

{{NFLplayer| 8|Brooks Bollinger}}

{{NFLplayer| 14|Chris Greisen}}

|Running Backs=

{{NFLplayer|40|James Develin|rookie=y|FB}}

{{NFLplayer|43|Maurice Hicks}}

{{NFLplayer|33|Dominic Rhodes}}

{{NFLplayer|38|J. D. Runnels|FB}}

|Wide Receivers=

{{NFLplayer|87|Brian Clark||d=American football}}

{{NFLplayer|19|Chas Gessner}}

{{NFLplayer|81|Cortez Hankton}}

{{NFLplayer|17|Maurice Price}}

{{NFLplayer|88|Calvin Russell||d=American football}}

{{NFLplayer|82|John Standeford}}

|Tight Ends=

{{NFLplayer|80|Jason Pociask}}

{{NFLplayer|84|Galen Stone|d=American football|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|85|Jermaine Wiggins}}

|Offensive Linemen=

{{NFLplayer|65|Josh Beekman|G/C}}

{{NFLplayer|63|Adrien Clarke|G}}

{{NFLplayer|66|Anthony Davis|d=offensive tackle b. 1980|G}}

{{NFLplayer|76|Na'Shan Goddard|T}}

{{NFLplayer|71|Steve Justice|G}}

{{NFLplayer|58|Enoka Lucas|C}}

{{NFLplayer|70|Shane Olivea|T}}

{{NFLplayer|73|Torrin Tucker|T}}

{{NFLplayer|75|Seth Wand|T}}

{{NFLplayer|72|Kyle Young|G/C}}

|Defensive Linemen=

{{NFLplayer|68|McKinley Boykin|DT}}

{{NFLplayer|56|Patrick Chukwurah|DE}}

{{NFLplayer|53|Joe Clermond|DE}}

{{NFLplayer|74|Grady Jackson|DT}}

{{NFLplayer|96|Eric Moore|d=defensive end|DE}}

{{NFLplayer|98|Bryan Save|DT}}

{{NFLplayer|93|Darrion Scott|DE}}

{{NFLplayer|95|Claude Wroten|DT}}

|Linebackers=

{{NFLplayer|57|Darryl Blackstock|OLB}}

{{NFLplayer|97|Arnold Harrison|OLB}}

{{NFLplayer|54|J Leman|MLB}}

{{NFLplayer|59|Tim McGarigle|MLB}}

{{NFLplayer|55|Terrence Melton|OLB}}

{{NFLplayer|50|Tony Taylor|d=American football|MLB}}

{{NFLplayer|52|Odell Thurman|OLB}}

|Defensive Backs=

{{NFLplayer|23|Jerome Carter|FS}}

{{NFLplayer|26|Simeon Castille|CB}}

{{NFLplayer|29|Keith Davis|d=safety|SS}}

{{NFLplayer|21|Cletis Gordon|CB}}

{{NFLplayer|44|Herana-Daze Jones|SS}}

{{NFLplayer|34|Kevin Kaesviharn|S}}

{{NFLplayer|20|Keiwan Ratliff|CB}}

{{NFLplayer|27|Corey Small|d=American football|rookie=y|CB}}

{{NFLplayer|24|Darius Vinnett|CB}}

|Special Teams=

{{NFLplayer| 9|Nick Novak|K}}

{{NFLplayer|13|Ken Parrish|P}}

{{NFLplayer|49|Ryan Senser|LS}}

|Reserve Lists=

{{NFLplayer|34|Fakhir Brown|CB|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|57|Weston Dacus|OLB|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|96|Chris Harrington|d=American football|DE|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|74|Langston Moore|DT|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|91|Eric Powell|d=American football|DE|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|32|J. R. Reed|d=American football, born 1982|SS|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|22|Nate Salley|FS|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|51|Anthony Schlegel|MLB|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|31|DeJuan Tribble|CB|IR}}

{{NFLplayer|15|Huey Whittaker|WR|IR}}

}}

Schedule

class="wikitable" align="center" style="font-size: 95%;"
rowspan="2" | Week

! rowspan="2" | Date

! rowspan="2" | Kickoff

! rowspan="2" | Opponent

! colspan="2" | Results

! rowspan="2" | Game site

! rowspan="2" | Attendance

! rowspan="2" | TV

Final score

! Team record

bgcolor="#ddffdd" align="center"

! 1

| Saturday, September 18

| 11:00 p.m. ET

| at Las Vegas Locomotives

| W 27–20

| 1–0

| Sam Boyd Stadium

| 9,103

| HDNet

bgcolor="ffbbbb" align="center"

! 2

| Saturday, September 25

| 11:00 p.m. ET

| at Sacramento Mountain Lions

| L 20–24

| 1–1

| Hornet Stadium

| 20,000

| Versus

bgcolor="ffbbbb" align="center"

! 3

| Thursday, September 30

| 6:00 p.m. ET

| Las Vegas Locomotives

| L 17–20

| 1–2

| Citrus Bowl

| 9,053

| Versus

bgcolor="ddffdd" align="center"

! 4

| Saturday, October 9

| 3:00 p.m. ET

| at Hartford Colonials

| W 33–20

| 2–2

| Rentschler Field

| 14,468

| Versus

align="center"

! 5

| colspan=8 | Bye

bgcolor="ffbbbb" align="center"

! 6

| Thursday, October 21

| 7:00 p.m. ET

| Sacramento Mountain Lions

| L 17–21

| 2–3

| Citrus Bowl

| 10,066

| HDNet

align="center"

! 7

| colspan=8 | Bye

bgcolor="ddffdd" align="center"

! 8

| Friday, November 5

| 8:00 p.m. ET

| Omaha Nighthawks

| W 31–14

| 3–3

| Citrus Bowl

| 9,203

| HDNet

bgcolor="ddffdd" align="center"

! 9

| Thursday, November 11

| 7:00 p.m. ET

| Hartford Colonials

| W 41–7

| 4–3

| Citrus Bowl

| 9,367

| HDNet

bgcolor="ddffdd" align="center"

! 10

| Friday, November 19

| 8:30 p.m. ET

| at Omaha Nighthawks

| W 27–10

| 5–3

| Rosenblatt Stadium

| 21,106

| HDNet

=Championship game=

class="wikitable" align="center" style="font-size: 95%;"
Date

! Kickoff

! Opponent

! Final score

! Game site

! Attendance

! TV

Saturday, November 27

| Noon ET

| Las Vegas Locomotives

| L 20-23

| Rosenblatt Stadium

|

| Versus

Standings

{{2010 UFL standings|team=FLA}}

Game summaries

=Week 1: at Las Vegas Locomotives=

{{Americanfootballbox

|titlestyle=background-color:#0090C5; color:white

|date=Saturday, September 18

|time=11:00 p.m. ET

|road=Tuskers

|R1=0 |R2=17 |R3=10 |R4=0

|home=Locomotives

|H1=10 |H2=0 |H3=7 |H4=3

|stadium=Sam Boyd Stadium, Whitney, Nevada

|attendance=9,103

|weather=

|referee=Jon Bible

|TV=HDNet

|TVAnnouncers=Kenny Rice (play-by-play) and Paul Maguire (analyst)

|reference=[http://www.ufl-football.com/news/gameday-final-tuskers-27-locos-20 Tuskers at Locomotives recap]

|scoring=

;1st quarter

  • Las vegas – Teddy Lehman 26-yard interception return (Parker Douglass kick), 9:00
  • Las vegas – Parker Douglass 32-yard field goal, 2:46

;2nd quarter

;3rd quarter

  • Las vegas – Bobby Rome 1-yard pass from Tim Rattay (Parker Douglass kick), 8:09
  • Florida – Nick Novak 24-yard field goal, 2:52
  • Florida – Calvin Russell 68-yard pass from Brooks Bollinger (Nick Novak kick), 0:10

;4th quarter

  • Las vegas – Parker Douglass 25-yard field goal, 4:49

|stats=

;Passing

;Rushing

;Receiving

}}

=Week 2: at Sacramento Mountain Lions=

{{Americanfootballbox

|titlestyle=background-color:#0090C5; color:white

|date=Saturday, September 25

|time=11:00 p.m. ET

|Road=Tuskers

|R1=3 |R2=7 |R3=7 |R4=3

|home=Mountain Lions

|H1=0 |H2=7 |H3=0 |H4=17

|stadium=Hornet Stadium, Sacramento, California

|attendance=20,000

|weather=

|referee=David Cutaia

|TV=Versus

|TVAnnouncers=Craig Minervini (play-by-play) and Doug Flutie (analyst)

|reference=[http://www.ufl-football.com/news/gameday-final-mountain-lions-24-tuskers-20 Tuskers at Mountain Lions recap]

|scoring=

;1st quarter

;2nd quarter

;3rd quarter

;4th quarter

  • Sacramento – Fabrizio Scaccia 54-yard field goal, 14:48
  • Sacramento – Darrell Strong 2-yard pass from Daunte Culpepper (Fabrizio Scaccia kick), 7:04
  • Florida – Nick Novak 30-yard field goal, 2:53
  • Sacramento – Rod Windsor 33-yard pass from Daunte Culpepper (Fabrizio Scaccia kick), 0:37

|stats=

;Passing

;Rushing

;Receiving

  • Florida – Cortez Hankton: 6 rec, 110 yards, 1 TD
  • Sacramento – Cory Ross: 8 rec, 57 yards

}}

=Week 3: vs. Las Vegas Locomotives=

{{Americanfootballbox

|date=Thursday, September 30

|time=6:00 p.m. ET

|titlestyle=background-color:#0090C5; color:white

|Road=Locomotives

|R1=7||R2=3||R3=0||R4=10

|Home=Tuskers

|H1=0||H2=10||H3=0||H4=7

|stadium=Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Florida

|TV=Versus

|attendance=9,054

|referee=Perry Havener

|reference=[http://www.ufl-football.com/news/locos-payback-turn Locomotives at Tuskers recap]

|scoring=

;1st quarter

;2nd quarter

  • Las vegas – Parker Douglass 20-yard field goal, 7:24
  • Florida – Nick Novak 45-yard field goal, 2:33
  • Florida – Dominic Rhodes 14-yard run (Nick Novak kick), 1:31

;3rd quarter

no scoring

;4th quarter

  • Florida – Cortez Hankton 13-yard pass from Brooks Bollinger (Nick Novak kick), 6:36
  • Las vegas – Andrae Thurman 15-yard pass from Tim Rattay (Parker Douglass kick), 4:13
  • Las vegas – Parker Douglass 21-yard field goal, 0:00

|stats=

;Passing

;Rushing

;Receiving

  • Las vegas – DeDe Dorsey: 7 rec, 105 yards
  • Florida – Jason Pociask: 3 rec, 46 yards

}}

=Week 4: at Hartford Colonials=

{{Americanfootballbox

|titlestyle=background-color:#0090C5; color:white

|date=Saturday, October 9, 2010

|time=3:00 p.m. ET

|road=Tuskers

|R1=3 |R2=7 |R3=13 |R4=10

|home=Colonials

|H1=3 |H2=10 |H3=0 |H4=7

|stadium=Rentschler Field, East Hartford, Connecticut

|attendance=14,468

|weather=

|referee=Jon Bible

|TV=Versus

|TVAnnouncers=

|reference=[http://www.ufl-football.com/news/gameday-final-tuskers-33-colonials-20 Tuskers at Colonials recap]

|scoring=

;1st quarter

;2nd quarter

  • Florida – Aveion Cason 1-yard run (Nick Novak kick), 5:11
  • Hartford – Taylor Mehlhaff 35-yard field goal, 3:34
  • Hartford – Gerard Lawson 41-yard interception return (Taylor Mehlhaff kick), 2:13

;3rd quarter

  • Florida – Nick Novak 42-yard field goal, 9:39
  • Florida – Nick Novak 24-yard field goal, 2:37
  • Florida – Jermaine Wiggins 2-yard pass from Brooks Bollinger (Nick Novak kick), 0:56

;4th quarter

  • Hartford – Ronnie Ghent 2-yard pass from Josh McCown (Taylor Mehlhaff kick), 9:12
  • Florida – Nick Novak 38-yard field goal, 2:29
  • Florida – Dominic Rhodes 16-yard run (Nick Novak kick), 1:53

|stats=

;Passing

;Rushing

;Receiving

}}

=Week 5: BYE=

{{Empty section|date=January 2011}}

=Week 6: vs. Sacramento Mountain Lions=

{{Americanfootballbox

|titlestyle=background-color:#0090C5; color:white

|date=Thursday, October 21, 2010

|time=7:00 p.m. ET

|Road=Mountain Lions

|R1=0||R2=7||R3=2||R4=12

|Home=Tuskers

|H1=10||H2=0||H3=0||H4=7

|stadium=Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Florida

|TV=HDNet

|attendance=10,066

|referee=Chris Snead

|reference=[http://www.ufl-football.com/news/sacramento-florida-live-stream-and-blog Mountain Lions at Tuskers recap]

|scoring=

;1st quarter

;2nd quarter

;3rd quarter

;4th quarter

  • Sacramento – Fabrizio Scaccia 27-yard field goal, 11:28
  • Florida – Dominic Rhodes 4-yard run (Nick Novak kick), 8:34
  • Sacramento – Daunte Culpepper 10-yard run (Daunte Culpepper pass no good), 2:00
  • Sacramento – Fabrizio Scaccia 39-yard field goal, 0:33

|stats=

;Passing

;Rushing

;Receiving

  • Sacramento – Cory Ross: 10 rec, 66 yards
  • Florida – Maurice Hicks: 4 rec, 41 yards

}}

=Week 7: BYE=

{{Empty section|date=January 2011}}

=Week 8: vs. Omaha Nighthawks=

{{Americanfootballbox

|titlestyle=background-color:#0090C5; color:white

|date=Friday, November 5, 2010

|time=8:00 p.m. ET

|Road=Nighthawks

|R1=0||R2=0||R3=0||R4=14

|Home=Tuskers

|H1=7||H2=7||H3=17||H4=0

|stadium=Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Florida

|TV=HDNet

|attendance=9,203

|referee=Jon Bible

|reference=[http://www.ufl-football.com/news/nighthawks-vs-tuskers-live-stream-and-blog Nighthawks at Tuskers recap]

|scoring=

;1st quarter

;2nd quarter

  • Florida – Calvin Russell 26-yard pass from Chris Greisen (Nick Novak kick), 7:03

;3rd quarter

  • Florida – Dominic Rhodes 65-yard run (Nick Novak kick), 10:32
  • Florida – Keiwan Ratliff 29-yard interception return (Nick Novak kick), 10:17
  • Florida – Nick Novak 42-yard field goal, 0:48

;4th quarter

|stats=

;Passing

;Rushing

;Receiving

}}

=Week 9: vs. Hartford Colonials=

{{Americanfootballbox

|titlestyle=background-color:#0090C5; color:white

|date=Thursday, November 11, 2010

|time=7:00 p.m. ET

|Road=Colonials

|R1=0||R2=0||R3=7||R4=0

|Home=Tuskers

|H1=14||H2=24||H3=3||H4=0

|stadium=Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Florida

|TV=HDNet

|attendance=9,367

|referee=David Cuttia

|reference=[http://www.ufl-football.com/news/and-then-there-were-four-hartford-colonials-eliminated-sudden-death-race Colonials at Tuskers recap]

|scoring=

;1st quarter

;2nd quarter

  • Florida – Nick Novak 39-yard field goal, 14:56
  • Florida – Chas Gessner 15-yard pass from Chris Greisen (Nick Novak kick), 10:57
  • Florida – Dominic Rhodes 30-yard run (Nick Novak kick), 4:36
  • Florida – Chas Gessner 7-yard pass from Chris Greisen (Nick Novak kick), 0:11

;3rd quarter

;4th quarter

no scoring

|stats=

;Passing

;Rushing

;Receiving

}}

=Week 10: at Omaha Nighthawks=

{{Americanfootballbox

|titlestyle=background-color:#0090C5; color:white

|date=Friday, November 19, 2010

|time=8:30 p.m. ET

|Road=Tuskers

|R1=7||R2=3||R3=10||R4=7

|Home=Nighthawks

|H1=0||H2=3||H3=0||H4=7

|stadium=Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, Omaha, Nebraska

|TV=HDNet

|attendance=21,106

|referee=Perry Havener

|reference=[http://www.ufl-football.com/news/gameday-final-tuskers-27-nighthawks-10 Tuskers at Nighthawks recap]

|scoring=

;1st quarter

;2nd quarter

  • Florida – Nick Novak 46-yard field goal, 7:01
  • Omaha – Jeff Wolfert 24-yard field goal, 1:44

;3rd quarter

;4th quarter

|stats=

;Passing

;Rushing

;Receiving

}}

Championship game

{{Main|2010 UFL Championship Game}}

{{Americanfootballbox

|date=Saturday, November 27, 2010

|time=Noon ET

|Road=Tuskers

|R1=||R2=||R3=||R4=

|Home=Locomotives

|H1=||H2=||H3=||H4=

|stadium=Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, Omaha, Nebraska

|TV=Versus

|attendance=

|referee=

|reference=

}}

References

{{Reflist}}

{{2010 UFL season}}

{{Florida Tuskers}}

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